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The  Jewish  National  Fuad 


OVLR  yonder  is  the  land  that  thrills  the  j 
Jewish  heart  with  splendid  memories. 

It  is  the  land  of  our  glorious  past, — Palestine. 

No  self-respecting  Jew  can  afford  to 
disregard  and  forsake  Palestine. 

The  Jewish  National  Fund  has  under¬ 
taken  the  task  of  redeeming  the  soil  of 
Palestine  for  the  Jews  willing  to  cultivate  it 
and  live  on  it. 

The  Jewish  National  Fund  wants  to  get 
back  for  the  Jewish  people  that  which  any 
civilized  nation  would  deem  the  greatest  of 
its  treasures. 

All  land  that  may  be  acquired  in  Palestine 
by  the  Jewish  National  Fund  is  to  be  the 

permanent  and  inalienable  property  of  the 
Jewish  people. 

Should  you  not  consider  it  an  honor  and 
a  privilege  to  share  in  this  work? 


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WHAT  HAS  THE  NATIONAL  FUND 
DONE  IN  PALESTINE? 


It  has  promoted  Agricultural  Colonization. 

The  Jewish  National  Fund  has  so  far  acquired  over 
10,000  dunams  of  ferti'e  land  in  various  parts  of  Palestine. 
On  this  land  there  now  exist  three  Workmen’s  agri¬ 
cultural  colonies:  Dagania,  Kinereth  and  Merchawja,  the 
latter  on  a  co-operative  basis,  and  five  different  farm 
industries,  each  of  them  an  experiment  as  to  new  possibil¬ 
ities  in  Jewish  agricultural  pursuits,  amongst  them  a  training 
farm  for  men  and  one  for  girls.  By  the  granting  of  a  hyp¬ 
othecary  loan  the  Jewish  National  Fund  has  also  secured, 
for  future  acquirement,  a  large  tract  of  exceedingly  fine  soil. 

In  Hulda  and  Ben  Schamen  (on  the  Jaffa-Jerusalem 
Railway  line)  the  Jewish  National  Fund  has  covered  a  space 
of  2200  dunams  with  about  40,000  fruit  trees,  the 
prospective  income  of  which  is  destined  for  the  educational 
needs  ot  the  Jews  in  Palestine. 

Through  the  Anglo-Palestine  Co.,  (a  filial  institution 
of  the  Jewish  Colonial  Trust,  London)  the  Jewish  National 
Fund  has  granted  loans  to  individuals  and  groups  in  the 
Jewish  colonies  enabling  them  to  establish  themselves 
firmly  and  to  extend  their  plantations.  The  new  work¬ 
men’s  colonies  Ain  Ganim  and  Nachlath  Jehuda  were 
especially  benefited  by  long  term  credits  from  the  Jewish 
National  Fund. 

It  has  promoted  Rural  and  Urban  settlements. 

By  the  granting  of  extensive  credits  to  the  Anglo- 
Palestine  Co.,  the  Jewish  National  Fund  brought  about 
the  erection  of  the  beautiful  suburb  Tel- Aviv  in  Jaffa, 
which  has  raised  the  prestige  of  the  Jew  in  Palestine. 
Out  of  the  repayments  on  account  of  the  loan  for  Tel-Aviv 
further  credits  were  granted  for  the  erection  of  Nachlath 
Benjamin,  another  flourishing  Jaffa  suburb. 


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The  Jewish  National  Fund  has  contributed  a  great 
deal  to  the  solving  of  the  serious  problem  of  Jewish  labor 
for  the  Jewish  colonies  by  providing  dwellings  for  Jewish 
laborers  in  many  colonies.  With  the  help  of  a  special 
fund  it  had  built  up  to  July  1st,  1913,  fifty-two  one  family 
houses  and  thirteen  barracks,  housing  135  families  in  all, 
besides  two  large  bachelor  dormitories  in  Petach  Tikvah 
and  Chederah.  Most  of  these  accommodations  were  let 
to  the  Jewish  refugees  from  Yemen,  a  sturdy  and  faithful 
tribe  of  our  race,  now  fleeing  from  unbearable  persecution, 
to  whom  Palestine  is  the  ideal  haven  of  refuge,  and  who 
promise  to  become  a  most  useful  element  in  the  agricultural 
development  of  the  country. 

It  has  aided  the  Bezalel  School  of  Arts  and  Crafts  of 
Jerusalem  to  settle  Jewish  workmen  of  the  filigree  atelier, 
with  their  families,  on  National  Fund  land  at  Ben  Schamen. 
Each  family  has  a  cottage,  with  a  plot  of  land  for  garden¬ 
farming.  Domestic  industry  is  thus  established  in  the 
open  country  and  connected  with  agricultural  pursuits. 


j  It  has  promoted  Institutions  of  Public  Utility. 

The  Jewish  National  Fund  has  provided  the  Bezalel 
with  two  large  well-situated  houses.  This  school,  founded 
in  1905,  now  employs  several  hundred  Jewish  men  and 
women,  and  has  opened  up  new  sources  of  industry  for 
the  many  Jews  in  the  Holy  Land  who  had  been  existing 
upon  alms. 

It  has  provided  the  Hebrew  High  Schools  (gymnasia) 
in  Jaffa  and  Jerusalem  with  the  sites  for  their  buildings  and 
has  similarly  given,  at  a  cost  of  100,000  francs,  the  site  for 
the  Jewish  Technical  Institute,  soon  to  be  opened  at 
Haifa. 

Of  late  the  Jewish  National  Fund  has  also  'pledged 
a  free  site  for  the  proposed  new  hospital  in  Jaffa,  a  matter 
of  dire  necessity. 


The  capital  of  the  Jewish  National  Fund  at  the  end  of 
June,  1913,  has  reached  the  sum  of  3,490,524  Marks, 
about  73%  of  which  were  invested  in  Palestine. 


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YOU  MAY  HELP  THIS  FUND 


By  subscribing  a  certain  sum  as  a  Voluntary  an¬ 
nual  tax. 

By  purchasing  one  dunam  or  more  of  land  m 

Palestine  in  your  own  name  and  presenting  it  to  the 
National  Fund.  One  dunam  costs  Ten  Dollars.  The 
purchaser  of  a  dunam  will  have  his  name  entered 
in  a  special  land  register,  and  receive  an  artistic 
certificate.  This  land  will  be  exclusively  devoted  to 
settlement  by  Jewish  agricultural  laborers. 

By  planting  one  or  more  Trees,  at  the  cost  of 
$1.50  each,  in  the  name  of  your  friend  or  relative. 
These  trees  have  already  provided  many  Jewish 
families  with  employment,  and  later  the  profit  real¬ 
ized  out  of  the  sale  of  the  fruit  thereof,  will  go 
towards  the  maintenance  of  Jewish  Educational  In¬ 
stitutions  in  Palestine. 

By  inscribing  in  the  Golden  Book  of  the  Jewish 

National  Fund  the  name  of  any  person  whom  you 
desire  to  show  particular  honor,  or  whose  memory 
you  would  like  to  perpetuate,  which  will  be  done  on 
payment  of  One  Hundred  Dollars  at  once  or  in  in¬ 
stallments  within  two  years.  The  inscriber,  or  the 
person  inscribed,  receives  a  beautiful  certificate 
suitable  for  framing. 

And  there  are  other  ways  of  contributing  to  the 
Fund,  which  will  cheerfully  be  explained  to  you 
upon  rerpiest. 

WILL  YOU  HELP  THE  FUND? 

All  remittances,  orders  for  leaflets  and  inquiries 
should  be  addressed  to  the 

Jewish  National  Fund  Bureau  for  America 

44  EAST  23rd  STREET 


NEW  YORK  CITY 


